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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






2. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






3. What are healthy sources of fats?






4. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






5. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






6. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






7. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






8. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






9. What does DASH stand for?






10. What is the function of vitamin E?






11. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






12. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






13. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






14. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






15. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






16. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






17. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






18. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






19. What is RDA of protein?






20. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






21. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






22. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






23. What function is vitamin D?






24. Name six sources of grains






25. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






26. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






27. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






28. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






29. Sources of fats






30. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






31. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






32. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






33. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






34. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






35. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






36. What function is vitamin A?






37. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






38. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






39. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






40. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






41. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






42. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






43. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






44. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






45. Where can you get more vitamin D?






46. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






47. What foods have high quality protein?






48. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






49. What is normal albumin levels?






50. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?